at Bennington Rescue in Bennington, Vermont, United States
Job Description
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!
The EMT Apprentice receives classroom and on the job training to sit for national certification exams to become an EMT.
During the training process the EMT Apprentice learns to:
- Become an allied health professional whose primary focus is to provide emergency medical care for critical and emergent patients who access the emergency medical system.
- Develop the complex knowledge and skills necessary to provide patient care and transportation.
- Function as part of a comprehensive EMS response, under medical oversight.
- Perform or assist with interventions with the basic and advanced equipment typically found on an ambulance.
- Be a link into the health care system and resource for routine and interfacility transports.
Would I make a good EMT? Good candidates have the ability to:
- Be genuinely empathetic with others. We work with all populations, you must be appreciative of many perspectives, and provide care without judgement.
- Communicate well in spoken language, body language, and written form.
- Calmly handle stressful situations and abrupt sensory and/or emotional stimulus and still react with speed and efficiency.
- Work 12-hour shifts which include days, nights, weekends, and holidays.
- Learn to safely operate complex equipment.
- Operate at a 10th grade level or higher for math, reading, medical terminology - anatomy & physiology - biology - this is a science based profession.
